Kosmos 516 (US-A #4), a Soviet nuclear-powered RORSAT active-radar ocean-surveillance satellite launched on a Tsiklon-2 from Baikonur LC-90 for naval target tracking.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 3.8 T
- Flight
- 12th
- of 105 Tsiklon-2 flights
- Date and time
- 21 August 1972, 10:36 UTC
- Rocket
- Tsiklon-2
- Builder
- Yuzhmash
- Launch site
- 90/19, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1972-066
- Launches in 1972
- 70th of 113
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